Tag: water

Jeunes filles de Sparte (1868-1870)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Jeunes filles de Sparte (Young Women of Sparta) 1868–1870 Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 74.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Along with 42.196, this painting of a pale, contemplative young woman dressed in garments that conjure past times…

Le Havre, Le Port (1884)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le Havre, Le Port (Le Havre, The Port) 1884 Oil on panel, 32.4 x 41.1 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York For Boudin, the sky—with its constant cloud motion and ever-changing light—proved a powerful source of inspiration throughout his…

Marée montante à Pourville (1882)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Marée montante à Pourville (Rising Tide at Pourville) 1882 Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Inspired in part by Gustave Courbet’s marines of the 1860s, Claude Monet here conveys the choppy, windswept sea…

Notre-Dame de Paris (1940)

Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame de Paris 1940 Oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm Private collection Compare: Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame 1909 Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris     Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre-Dame de Paris 1929 Private collection     Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Notre Dame de…

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris (1888)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris 1888 Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 54.6 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Two plumes of white steam rise from an unseen boat on the river Seine, signs of modern life juxtaposed with the…

Notre-Dame, une fin d’après-midi (1902)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Notre-Dame, une fin d’après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon) 1902 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 72.39 x 54.61 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon…

Petit nu bleu (c.1878-1879)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Petit nu bleu (Little Blue Nude) c.1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 46.35 x 38.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo During the late 1870s Pierre-Auguste Renoir began applying Impressionist theory to the rendering of the human figure—a process that…